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What is documentary photography?
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What is Documentary Photography?
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Subjective vs. Objective
Looking at the document in Documentary photography.
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Photographs as Evidence
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Spiritualist photography
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Photographers started to use the idea of the Photograph as a document to their advantage.
Lewis Hine Jacob Riis
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• In what ways today do we still use the photograph as a document, as proof something exists?
• In what ways do we exploit this idea with different types of imagery?
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SO, CAN A PHOTOGRAPH EVER BE OBJECTIVE?
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“Objective Fictions”
Bill brandt Walker evans Weegee Robert capa
1920’s to the 1960s was the boom time of Photojournalism in magazines – but it wasn’t all truly ‘objective’.....
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“Subjective facts”
“increasing [the] idea of subjective expression of individual convictions”()
From the 1930s onwards Documentary photography took on a much more subjective outlook – the individual viewpoint of the photographer became more important.
Robert Frank – The Americans
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Richard Billingham Paul Graham
William Eggleston Nan Goldin
http://fstoppers.com/bruce-davidson-70-years-as-a-photographer
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...A document; evidence of existence
...Subjective facts vs. Objective fictions
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Jacob Riis
Lewis Hine
Active in Social Reform
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‘Documentary’ Photography gradually became a Powerful form of visual communication.......
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It can Shock and dismay...
James Nachtwey
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Eugene Richards – Cocaine True Cocaine Blue
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.....And create hauntingly beautiful images showing the impact of our way of life.
Edward Burtynsky
http://www.ted.com/talks/edward_burtynsky_photographs_the_landscape_of_oil.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/edward_burtynsky_on_manufactured_landscapes.html
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But it can also communicate the more light-hearted perspectives of our daily lives...
Martin Parr Elliot Erwitt
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...and create highly personal, sensitive documents of intimate, individual events.
Nan Goldin Richard Billingham
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Marjolaine Ryley
Byron Wolfe
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Social Documentary Photojournalism Street Photography Urban landscapes
Eugene Richards Mary Ellen Mark Marjolaine Ryley Joel Meyerowitz Lee Friedlander Don McCullin Simon Norfolk Bruce Davidson Jan Sochor Trent Parke Rut Blees Luxemberg Henk van Rensbergen Matt Stuart James Nachtwey
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Jo Metson-Scott Chloe Dewe Matthews